{"id":36995,"date":"2026-06-30T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-30T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gorillacardboard.com\/?p=36995"},"modified":"2026-06-30T00:16:25","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T00:16:25","slug":"the-first-iphone-released-19-years-ago-today-apple-kept-all-164-u-s-retail-stores-open-until-midnight-as-customers-lined-up-to-purchase-the-4gb-model-sold-for-499-how-many-iphone-releases-have-yo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gorillacardboard.com\/?p=36995","title":{"rendered":"The first iPhone released 19 years ago today. Apple kept all 164 U.S. retail stores open until midnight as customers lined up to purchase. The 4GB model sold for $499. How many iPhone releases have you collected in a drawer since 2007?"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The first iPhone released 19 years ago today.<\/p>\n<p>Apple kept all 164 U.S. retail stores open until midnight as customers lined up to purchase. The 4GB model sold for $499.<\/p>\n<p>How many iPhone releases have you collected in a drawer since 2007?<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 @PSAcard <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PSAcard\/status\/2071745533777965159\">Jun 30, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first iPhone released 19 years ago today. Apple kept all 164 U.S. retail stores open until midnight as customers lined up to purchase. The 4GB model sold for $499. How many iPhone releases have you collected in a drawer since 2007? \u2014 @PSAcard Jun 30, 2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":135,"featured_media":36997,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[49,33],"class_list":["post-36995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-grading","tag-psa","tag-x"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gorillacardboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36995","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gorillacardboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gorillacardboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gorillacardboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/135"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gorillacardboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36995"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gorillacardboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36995\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36996,"href":"https:\/\/gorillacardboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36995\/revisions\/36996"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gorillacardboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/36997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gorillacardboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gorillacardboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gorillacardboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}